The low interest in studying these drugs amongst non-medical psych and neuro researchers baffles me. Perhaps it's the barriers. But I don't think the folks rooted in medical disciplines are gonna do a great job of studying effects on body image, productivity, relationships, social life, memory...

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

“Experts are dubious.”

Bluesky compression destroys it but here's a link to a random dot autostereogram animation. I mean come on. cogneurolab.org/PSYC310/rds_...

If I ever become an Editor-in-Chief, first of all, stage an intervention. But if the intervention fails, my first new policy will be that for any paper to be considered the authors need to identify 40 potential reviewers.

She moves to Prague to escape her onerous student loan. Her monthly payment? $60. And after 20 years the balance would have been forgiven. Sorry but that is just…hilarious?

Random-dot stereogram generator made in Claude in minutes (crossed/uncrossed/anaglyph). I know people have a lot of feelings about AI but I could spend my whole day doing stupid things like this. claude.ai/public/artif...

Visual #workingmemory peeps, you're going to love this. This is super challenging - might give you pause on how we are measuring color memory... My color memory is a 40.4/50. Please do worse so I feel better. dialed.gg?c=3PCHDE

Cool stuff chenglou.me/pretext/

Insel sucked and no one person should be able to have this kind of impact on science funding

Make your face or any face a Thatcher illusion...mobile-friendly...thanks Claude. cogneurolab.org/PSYC310/that...

Ah yes, that is why he was known as James “The Bean” Spader, so synonymous he became with that very famous show that existed in 1995.

And yet there are plenty of “legitimate” scientists that voluntarily go on @hubermanlab.com podcast implicitly promoting exactly this grift!

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

I haven't extensively debugged this yet but it's fun. Play as Hubel & Wiesel and determine the RF properties of a V1 neuron. cogneurolab.org/PSYC310/v1-r...

(Perceptual) space and time are warped by the gravity of objects and events in their vicinity. There's been a flurry of work recently documenting examples of this gravity, all resulting in some really neat illusions. @brynnsherman.bsky.social and I discuss all of those, here: rdcu.be/e5SWo

Another S&P demo courtesy of Claude: Receptive fields (RGCs/LGN center-surround): cogneurolab.org/PSYC310/rece...

Come and join OPAM as an organizer for 2026/7!!🎉 We are still looking for two new early career researchers (phd/postdoc) to join the OPAM team to help run everyones favorite one day miniconference! Express your interest by this weekend!

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

One of the funniest, dumbest things I persistently see online as a dad of a toddler is that you should not tell a child “good job!” They don’t have a job, you see. It’s very confusing for them.

“I don’t think he’s colorblind he knows all these colors. Show me green!” He picks up green and red.

Another fun vision demo (Dan Kersten et al's shadow demo) that Claude generated in less than a minute. cogneurolab.org/demos/kerste...

A little live demo to accompany the SDT explorer tool. Again made by Claude but was a tougher lift. It's not perfect but probably adequate for in-class demo. cogneurolab.org/PSYC310/SDT_...

Claude Opus 4.6 w/ extended thinking is kind of insanely great at making little web demos and such. This is the kind of thing it one-shots -- a little Signal Detection Theory explorer. I hand coded something like this a while back and people were enthusiastic. I'd be embarrassed to link it here.

That they think they can outthink all the scientists on earth because their contrarian thinking is a super power is a kind of absurdist comedy for me.

One of my favorite little tests for new AI models is to ask it to make a program that will generate an illusion like Kitaoka's Rotating Snakes illusion. None of them have been able to do it for me, until now -- this one is close. I get some illusory motion with defaults. claude.ai/public/artif...

Heard about this on NPR. I would bet big money that this will not hold up. The effect size strains the bounds of credulity.

This should be fun. Or horrible. www.moltbook.com

Just a big congrats to everyone participating in the “babies make angry YouTube videos about baby things” art project today, this is a quality bit of comedy

I’m writing a horror novel called The Toddler, the Grant Deadline, and the 2-feet-of-snow Forecast

I’ve always thought adding a year to the tenure clock per child born was a good idea, but now that I have a toddler I think it should be 5 years.

Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy

Fun times

On our @whatatimepod.bsky.social recording today we talked about a Wise Old Tree and you KNOW this classic came up

Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.

What is the etiquette on using other peoples' data posted on, e.g., OSF? If I have a modeling paper that uses someone else's data, should I share the data again through a repository that includes my code? Or is that inappropriate -- I should simply provide a link to their repository?

The journal "Science Direct"? Hmm...

Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵

I’m out of ideas. Let’s fit a drift diffusion model and then put weird interpretations on the parameters. I love being so theory driven!

We’re at a 8 out of 10 on the Brawndo It’s What Plants Crave scale of stupid

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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

excuse me what?

If you don’t have suspicion and contempt bordering on hatred for it, you have no business interacting with “AI.” There’s nothing for you there. Move on.

Gather round children, let me tell you the tale of the Dot Com Boom. Long before the great glass slabs, when the drives clicky-clacked…. techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/m...

This is just perfect www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...

I have a Mac on developer preview and it got macOS 26. Horrific. It looks so so bad. How did no one stop this?

Interesting choice UCSB…….. news.ucsb.edu/2025/021958/...

There is just no end to silly pseudoscience stuff on the internet and I just love it…I mean, the harmless stuff.

I took chatgpt, and repeatedly typed in "howdy" and then blew a puff of air into its cornea (I said "[I blow a puff of air into your cornea]"). It started to HATE the word "howdy." Bang, foundation model of conditioning. Nature neuro paper easily